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Self-portrait as Jerry Quarry

Author: Vito Aiuto

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 90

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Poetry. "The monsters and heroes, sometimes inseparable, that populate this book rise up, are beaten down, and rise up again in a raw and flooded mythos. With a darting, weaving musicality, sometimes talky, sometimes demonically convoluted, these poems roar and splinter. If they weren't so funny, they'd be terrifying--and they are. If they weren't so terrifying, they'd be funny--and they are. Vito Aiuto's voice comes to us from the epicenter of a concussive beauty. Get ready to be hit"--Dean Young.

Besides the Bible

Author: Dan Gibson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 083085858X

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How do you decide what to read? Dan Gibson, Jordan Green and John Pattison have created this tool to make your choices easier. Besides the Bible is a guide to the wide array of great books that they believe every Christian should read—the ones that matter to the church and the world.

Ovid at Fifteen

Author: Christopher Bursk

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 112

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Christopher Bursk's latest collection is not just profoundly honest; it is profoundly brave. These astonishing poems explore the space between sensuality, sexuality, and love--a landscape in which flawed human beings give birth to the flawed human beings who will one day take care of them, each generation screwing up even as it adds to the universal fund of beauty and compassion. Above all, Ovid at Fifteen reminds us what it means to feel the wonder of life too keenly--to "want to throw yourself / off the cliff, plunge / into the very heart of color." If Bursk's ordinary yet mythic heroes hold back, they do so not out of cowardice but because they remember what happened to Icarus. And so they watch, and dream, and feel, and thus "make a living / out of aching . . ." The greatness of this book lies in its immortalizing that ache, that delicious pain.

The Bovine Two-step

Author: Rebecca Reynolds

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 84

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Poetry. Rebecca Reynolds' first book, Daughter of the Hangnail, was selected for the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. In her second volume, Reynolds is bent on exploring interior interchanges between sound and sense: the seductions of language, the fund of sensual experience, informal feeling versus the logic of the world. In THE BOVINE TWO-STEP, Reynolds tests delineations between the interior and exterior worlds, between self and world. The poems address these distinctions, often wrestling with the blur that results from their mingling. Revelations in these poems are small and quiet and open to questioning--both delimiting and mirroring its human business.

Little Low Heaven

Author: Anthony Butts

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 86

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Poetry. LITTLE LOW HEAVEN describes a world of isolation and beauty, art and prophecy, loss and yearning. In his tender yet terrible reading of the human condition, Anthony Butts has become a poet of pain and sorrow and, finally, of the barest budding of hope.

Clumsy

Author: Claire Bateman

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 136

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Poetry. "Claire Bateman's speakers are experts in failure, and they often know how silly they look from a cautious pragmatic perspective. They know they look like misfits, bumbling around in a world of rationally explicable restraints--clumsy, whacked, but undaunted and weirdly cheerful. Like other transcendentalist poets, Bateman is most powerful and moving where she gives pain and folly their due, sustaining her readiness for marvelous breakthrough amid folly and pain. Indeed, her central intuition is that the interaction between two realities, rather than either reality in itself, is what makes life, as well as poetry, terrific"--Mark Halliday, from the foreword.

Leap

Author: Claire Bateman

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 80

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Poetry. "I say Claire Bateman is weirder, deeper, weirdeeper, and in that way better than the poets some say are so damned good. Those poets just make me go 'Huh?' and 'Oh, sure, ' whereas Bateman makes me go 'Sheesh!' and 'Holy espresso!'"--Mark Halliday

In a Combination of Practices

Author: Barbara Maloutas

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 112

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Poetry. "In a Combination of Practices is just that, a combination of various poetic practices that creates a sense of varied-at times even conflicting-wonderment . . . Hers is a turning, folding, heaping world, where meaning shifts like geological forces." -Douglas Messerli

This One Tree

Author: Katie Peterson

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 128

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Poetry. THIS ONE TREE is the winner of the 2005 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by William Olsen. "No one is going to not-know what these poems intend, what they state, and why they exist. They have the rigor of Oppen and a serious eye-level attention to pieces and parts of the chosen subject that give them an analogical edge over pure description. They bring heart and soul back to the poet writing them."--Fanny Howe "In THIS ONE TREE, I find what might very well be the salvation of our distracted, disbanded American soul: an imperative, unempirical Gaze. Peterson commends and then commands Vision in her every word, beginning with her first ones--'Be on the lookout.' And what I find most wonderful of all is that, here, Vision goes forward to atonement and a new name in 'sweet alyssum' for us all."--Donald Revell

Purr

Author: Mary Ann Samyn

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

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Poetry. PURR is Mary Ann Samyn's fourth book of poetry. "This poetry hovers between irony and true despair" - Lynn Emanuel. "Here is a poetry built of sensory data so sharply honed as to make even the mundane microfibre or the quotidian stone path a journey, a finding, a deep understanding of the world. And who couldn't love a book where Doris Day and Nancy Sinatra are as essential and mysterious as saints?"- D.A. Powell